HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080473960
Bassin de Rio São Francisco
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Remanso, Sento Sé
Sub-basin area
325,2km²
Upstream area
481 237,3km²
Discharge
2 806,64m³/s
Mean elev.
424m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco818 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jacaré56 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.5 km²83.2% of basin
- 54.4 km²16.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
323.85 km² overlap
Park
22.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
105 distinct species · 209 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,5°C
Annual rain
627mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
528mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
125cm
Forest
15%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)